Any Navy EOD on here? What is training like? What is the washout rate? What makes you guys better than other branch EOD? What are your officers like?
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Are you the same guy that made the cg thread?
iirc, there was some navy eod dude on here. I remember seeing a screencap with him and an eod tat
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wut? cg? And really? What kind of stuff did he say
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you learn how to defuse nukes manually and get dropped in with special operations to fight monsters. you also get +5 to dudebro and +10 to face punchability.
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lol why face punchability
Just survive dive school, the hardest physical school, and then pass EOD school, the hardest academic school, and you'll be good!
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Why is dive school so hard physically? What about it makes it hard?
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The pool is known to be an equalizer. Of course everyone is a good swimmer and in good physical shape, but some excel more than others. The nature of oxygen depletion and emulated drowning however causes your body to be at an 'equal' level of physical and mental capability.
So imagine drowning bringing everyone to the an equal worst point in physical fortitude. And at that worst point you see which people are inherently capable, or incapable, of still going and finishing their tasks.
There's many other forms of equalizers in other selection courses and pipelines. Pool is one of them.
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Fun. So testing your capacity to deal with induced drowning is what makes it the most physically difficult. Seems mental almost.
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>Any Navy EOD on here? What is training like? What is the washout rate?
Army here, so without any Navy guys I'll answer.
The EOD school is joint and all the services get the same EOD qualification training. The only difference for the Navy is they do underwater ordnance training for a couple of weeks at the end, but they already have badges by that point.
Washout rate for the school hovers at about 70% for all services.
After basic EOD qualifications, Navy EOD is almost entirely dedicated to supporting special operations missions. For this they have a different focus and mission set. They work less with robots, they focus much less with being able to ID fuzes and ordnance (they would seriously call and email us on deployment to ask for ID on stuff because they could find it), and they don't even deal with the kind of IEDs that hit vehicles that much. Navy EOD focuses more on mark & clear or bypass missions, where they are more concerned with getting a unit to move from point A to point B, and will do the minimum required in terms of disarming to allow that to quickly happen. They work on making sure caches are safe to collect intelligence with. They act as general purpose explosives experts for their elements and will prepare doorbanger charges and such.
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What causes the majority of the washouts?
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First off, they introduce you to live explosives right at the beginning of the school (under very controlled conditions). Some people just can't handle it. You put a live blasting cap in their hand it suddenly the reality of the job hits them. So a decent number of drops or fails there.
It is a very long school. 9 months to a year long depending on your circumstances.
It is very detail oriented, so there are many tests which might not seem particularly difficult, but a small mistake might result in instant failure. Particularly on the practical tests where a small misstep out of exhaustion might be the end.
You generally are allowed a failure and a successful retest on any exam to continue. Fail the retest and you're done. Also, the instructors have discretion to recommend you be immediately dropped if you fail the first test too hard, this is normally for people who flip the fuck out during a test.
You start dealing with bomb suits and NBC near the end of the school. By that time most of the failures have already failed and the better people are left standing, but there are the occasional people who just can't deal with completing tests while wearing that equipment.
There are no physical fuck-fuck games in terms of making people do crazy PT. In fact there are no arbitrary physical standards at all. The only physical testing comes from completing the practical exams themselves.
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